Quick Draw Quotes

#1. Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.

Mark Zero

#2. I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

William Powell

#3. Quick-Draw Carl, who still wore the broad-brimmed brown hat of his legendary dad, Sheriff Rick.

Jonathan Maberry

#4. Looks like Egor is a quick draw, Ms. Baird. There are pills for that, you know.

Nalini Singh

#5. Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West's Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

Tony Blankley

#7. But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.

Rick Yancey

#8. If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?

Charles Barkley

#9. The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

Drew Barrymore

#10. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame ... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. Some people are like gravity; they draw you into a room with a hop in your step and a smile on your face. Others are like the stench of sulfur; they make you scowl and want to swivel on the balls of your feet towards a quick exit. Have you stopped to think if you are gravity or sulfur?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

Derren Brown

#13. Until I came along all the leading men
were handsome, but luckily they wrote a
lot of stories about the fellow next door.

Gary Cooper

#14. He had a natural curiosity about the stories of those around him paired with a brain that was quick to draw insights from within each of these stories.

Jeff Hobbs

#15. My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Deana Carter

#16. I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real.

Charles De Lint

#17. Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#18. It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard ... Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Charles De Lint

#19. I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.

Jackson Browne

#20. A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

Joseph Addison

#21. There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

Michael Josephson

#22. At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.

Jennifer Brown

#23. Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Marcel Proust

#24. A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

Ivor A. Richards

#25. When you're sick of the world, lock your door, grab your pillow, plug in your headphones and turn the music up.

Dreamer Girl

#26. In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

Rudolf Steiner

#27. It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets.

Timothy Olyphant

#28. The future, for me, is romantic, I don't understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don't know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.

Raf Simons